Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga is the fifth film in the universe conceived by George Miller, started in 1979. Should we worry about a clear chronology? Not. No more than filmmakers, really.
In 1979, the first film Mad Max magic. More than 40 years later, George Miller still hasn’t given up. Even if we had to wait decades before discovering the “reboot” Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), after the initial trilogy created in a relatively short period of time (six years). Furiosa: The Mad Max Sagain theaters from May 22, the prologue is for Wild roadwhich adds even more confusion to the possible coherence within the saga.
The fact is that George Miller had to rethink a lot of things between the initial trilogy (which had a relatively well-established time frame) and Mad Max: Fury Road. The replacement of Mel Gibson with Tom Hardy in the title role is a perfect symbol of this. And the 30 years separating the third and fourth films revised the narrative structure of the universe (especially the moment when the nuclear bombs were dropped). If you like to spin your mind, we advise you this attempt at clarification.
George Miller doesn’t care about chronological consistency in his Mad Max movies
As the first trailer shows, Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga takes place 45 years after what we can call the apocalypse. In the original trilogy, this would have happened between the 2nd and 3rd films. Mad Max: Fury Road, he prefers to place it between movies 1 and 2. Which means that by the time Max meets Furiosa, he would have experienced a lot. Therefore, it should be much older. Moreover, originally, Mad Max: Fury Road should have been a direct sequel Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, always with Mel Gibson. Big production problems and the actor’s reputation delayed everything. George Miller then decided on a kind of reboot, with redesigned timeline.
Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga it doesn’t really help to see things more clearly. But you don’t really have to worry about that. On the occasion of the press conference organized at that time for Mad Max: Fury Road (over it Polygon), George Miller was quite transparent on the subject: “ The films do not have a strict chronology. Movie (Wild Road) it probably takes place after Beyond Thunderdome, but it’s simply an episode in Max’s life. It’s a segment, and we’re revisiting this universe. I never wrote this story, or even the other stories, with a chronological connection in mind. »
George Miller doesn’t really want to bother with perfect consistency. The character of Max is also an observation of this choice that allows us to free ourselves from certain limitations: he is more the incarnation of the “lone hero” who can be anyone, than the central character with a past that must be respected at all costs. We can also secretly see his silhouette Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga. Another element that proves that consistency doesn’t matter to George Miller: the director did not hesitate to hire the same actor for two different roleswith a character whose fate we do not know at all.
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